Andrés Moya is a development economist focused on the analysis of conflict and forced displacement and in understanding whether they can thrust people into poverty through economic, psychological, and behavioral channels. He builds upon these analyses to design and evaluate interventions that aim to mitigate some of these consequences.

Moya is also director of Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial model for caregivers of young children in communities exposed to conflict and forced displacement in Colombia. This program promotes maternal mental health as an outcome and a pathway to protect early childhood development among families exposed to conflict, forced displacement, and other adversities. The program was designed in partnership with the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California San Francisco. By 2025, Semillas de Apego will scale up to reach 15,000 caregivers and 20,000 children in 15 municipalities across Colombia. 

Moya is a member of EGAP, an invited academic at JPAL-LAC, a Faculty Affiliate at the Care and Protection of Children Learning Network, and a Research Affiliate at the Internal Displacement Research Programme at the University of London. In 2021-2022 he was the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University. Moya received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Davis.